Recent Books by Faculty and Doctoral Program Alumni

We would like to list recent books (edited and authored) by Toronto School of Theology faculty members and alumni from the doctoral program, but we need your help. If you have published a book within the past five years, please email us with your name, book title, publisher, and other pertinent details.
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Alumni

John C. Clark (2012 PhD, University of St. Michael’s College), co-authored with Marcus P. Johnson, 2007 PhD, University of St. Michael’s College, The Incarnation of God: The Mystery of the Gospel as the Foundation of Evangelical Theology. Wheaton, IL.: Crossway, 2015. More information from the publisher's website here.

Rohan Michael Curnow (2011 ThD, Regis College), The Preferential Option for the Poor: A Short History and a Reading Based on the Thought of Bernard Lonergan. Marquette Studies in Theology: 81, 2014. More information from the publisher's website here.

Marcus P. Johnson (2007 PhD, University of St. Michael’s College), co-authored with John C. Clark, 2012 PhD, University of St. Michael’s College), The Incarnation of God: The Mystery of the Gospel as the Foundation of Evangelical Theology. Wheaton, IL.: Crossway, 2015. More information from the publisher's website here.

Scott Kindred-Barnes (2011 PhD, University of St. Michael’s College), Richard Hooker: His Life, Work, and Legacy: Essays in Honour of W. David Neelands. Co-edited with Daniel Graves. Toronto: St. Osmund Press, 2013.

Scott Kindred-Barnes (2011 PhD, University of St. Michael’s College), Richard Hooker’s Use of History in His Defence of Public Worship: His Anglican Critique of Calvin, Barrow and the Puritans. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. More information from the publisher's website here.

Doctoral Dissertations

Have you ever wondered what kind of groundbreaking research is done by the doctoral students of the TST member colleges? The list below will give you an idea and includes all doctoral dissertations (DMin, PhD and ThD). Please note that theses from 2012 onward can be accessed through TSpace, the University of Toronto's online research repository. Earlier theses may be found at TST member college libraries.

Cadwell , Matthew Peter (TR). In Search of Anglican Comprehensiveness: A Study in the Theologies of Hooker, Maurice, and Gore. PHD/Th. Director: David Neelands. Fall 2013.

Clark, John Christian (WY). The Priestly Office of Jesus Christ in the Thought of John Calvin.PHD/H. Director: Victor Shepherd. Fall 2013.

Dean, Robert John (WY). For the Life of the World: Jesus Christ and the Church in the Theologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Stanley Hauerwas. ThD/Th. Director: Joseph Mangina. Spring 2014.

Dunn, Matthew (SM). The Use of the Bible in Jacques Dupuis's Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism: An Examination According to Chapter III of the Pontifical Biblical Commission's "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church". PHD/Th. Director: Harold Wells. Fall 2013.

DMin

Michaelson, Valerie Elizabeth (WY). A Missed Possibility: A Study of the Influence of Church Participation on Health Indicators Related to Shalom in Canadian Children. DMin. Director: William Pickett. Spring 2014.

Oulton, Peter Darrell (W). In Search of a Responsible Freedom in a Post- Christendom World: A Reconsideration of Karl Barth's Social and Political Thought in the Context of his Overall Development. PhD/Th. Co-Directors: Donald Wiebe and Jonathan Chaplin. Fall 2012.

Curnow, Rohan Michael. (R). Bernard Lonergan and the Preferential Option for the Poor: Integral Conversion, Liberation Hermeneutics, and the Mission of the Church. ThD/Th. Co-Directors: Robert Doran and John Dadosky. Fall 2011.

Pereira, Renee Danielle. (M). The Life of St. Mary of Egypt as an Icon of Repentance: The Use of Hagiography to Manifest Liturgical and Theological Penitential Motifs in the Seventh-Century Byzantine Church Doctor of Philosophy. PhD/Th. Director: Pablo Argarate. Fall 2011.

Pereyra, David Horacio. (M). The Ambo: A Liturgical Space for the Proclamation of the Word of God. PhD/Th. Director: Pablo Argarate. Fall 2011.

Travis, Sarah. (K). Encountering Others in the Perichoretic Space: A Social Trinitarian Postcolonial Homiletic for the Canadian Context. ThD/P. Co-Directors: David Jacobsen and Dorcas Gordon. Spring 2012.

Wettlaufer, Ryan. (M). Unseen Variants: A Study of Conjectural Emendation in New Testament Textual Criticism With the Epistle of James as a Case Study. PhD/B. Director: John Kloppenborg. Fall 2011.

De Blasio, Marlon Domenic (M). The Conscious Experience of Grace and the Transformation of Life: John Wesley's Theology of Conversion with Particular Reference to His Sermons. PhD/Th. Director: Harold Wells. Fall 2010.

ThD/PhD

Bekele, Girma (W). Listening to the Cry of Hagar: David Bosch's Theology of the Missional Alternative Community Viewed through the Lens of Christian Mission in Ethiopia. PhD/Th. Director: Charles Fensham, Joseph Mangina. Spring 2010.

Isaac, Shirley Mae (W). The Unity of the Triune God in the Theologies of Jürgen Moltmann and Robert Jenson: A Dialectical Approach. PhD/Th. Director: Harold Wells. Spring 2010.

Jacobs-Vandegeer, Christiaan (R). Envisioning a Methodical Theology of Grace: Exercises in Transposition Spanning the Early and Later Writing of Bernard J.F. Lonergan. PhD/Th. Director: Robert Doran. Fall 2009.

Bergen, Jeremy (E). The Emerging Practice of Ecclesial Repentance and the Nature and Mission of the Church. PhD/Th. Director: Joe Mangina. November 2008.

Chartrand, Leon (M). An Originative Perspective of Wildness and its Implications for Dwelling in Nearness to Grizzly Bears in the Yellowstone: A Phenomenological Case for a Primordial Ethic. PhD/Th. Director: Dennis O’Hara. November 2008.

Dentry, Ann (E). Toward an Interpretive Ministry of the Word in the Lutheran Tradition, Grounded in ‘Spiritual Conversion’ with Particular Reference to the Work of Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola. ThD/P. Director: Gill Goulding. May 2009.

Dias, Darren (M). The Contributions of Bernard J.F. Lonergan to a Systematic Understanding of Religious Diversity. PhD/Th. Director: Robert Doran. November 2008.

Evans, Paul (W). Prolegomena to the Use of 2 Kings 18-19 in the Historical Reconstruction of Sennacherib’s 701 B.C.E Invasion into Judah. PhD/B. Director: Mark J. Boda. November 2008.

Mader, Christine (M). Where the Laity’s Participation in the Threefold Office of Christ Intersects with Ordained Roles: The Contribution of the Second Vatican Council to an Understanding of this Overlap. PhD/Th. Director: Margaret O’Gara. November 2008.

Malia, Linda (M). Transformation toward Being a Ministering/Sacramental Community: A Study of the Role of the Rites of Healing in the Episcopal Church from 1979-2000. ThD/P. Directors: David Reed & Michael Stoeber. November 2008.

Medina, Nestor (E). “Race,” Culture, and Faith: (Re)Mapping the Development of Mestizaje in Theology. PhD/Th. Director: Lee Cormie. November 2008.

Choi, JinBong (KN) 'The Word Became Flesh and Lived Among Us, and We have Seen His Glory': A Theological Homiletics for the Korean Church’s Appropriation of the Gospel with Special Reference to Hilkert’s Proposal Rooted in Paul Ricoeur’s 'Hermeneutic of Belief'. ThD. Director: David Jacobsen. May 2008.

Dunghe, Adelmo (RG) A Hermeneutics of Film: Pasolini’s Semiotics and a Cinema of the Sacred. PhD. Directors: Robert Doran and Bart Testa. November 2007.

Harris, Mark (EM) The Search for Meaning in Congregational Worship. DMin. Director: William Kervin. May 2008.

Johnson, Marcus (TR). Union with Christ in the Applied Soteriology of John Calvin. PhD. Director: Victor Shepherd. November 2007.

Keough, Shawn (SM) Exegesis Worthy of God: The Development of Biblical Interpretation in Alexandria. PhD. Director: Pablo Argárate. November 2007.

Kim, Dong-Ha (KN) The Significance of the Trinitarian Koinonia for a Contemporary Ecclesiology: The Contributions of Miroslav Volf and John Zizioulas. ThD. Director: Harold Wells. May 2008.

Langknecht, Hank (EM) Giving Scripture its Voice: The Tensive Impertinence of the Literal Sense of the Pericope, Metaphorical Meaning-Making, and Preaching the Word of God. ThD. Director: Paul Wilson. May 2008.

MacDonald, Ron (SM) The Singer and the Song: The Pastoral Dimension of Singing in the Reformed Roman Catholic Liturgical Rite. DMin. Directors: Willis Nobel and William Kervin. November 2007.